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title: «my brother wants to sit on a lily leaf» What can the giant lily Vic… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood… · tree and pragmatics
description: «my brother wants to sit on a lily leaf» What can the giant lily Victoria leaf hold? Test 7 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 7 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

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«my brother wants to sit on a lily leaf» What can the giant lily Victoria leaf hold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, giant lily · **What happens:** want, sit, hold · **To what, where:** lily leaf

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This is test 7 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/155-the-amazon-river/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t7:1
# text = «my brother wants to sit on a lily leaf» What can the giant lily Victoria leaf hold?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | my brother *not said here* |  |  | a lily leaf |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | can | the giant lily |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t7:o1:1
# text = A car
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A small child's weight, if spread evenly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t7:o2:1
# text = A small child's weight, if spread evenly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	evenly	evenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | participle |  | a small child's weight *not said here* |  |  |  | evenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing heavier than a frog, or the leaf sinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing heavier than a frog, or the leaf sinks
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | the leaf |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only water drops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t7:o4:1
# text = Only water drops
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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